MEGA

Secure Cloud Storage and Chat

What is MEGA?

MEGA is a popular Edge add-on by MEGA Ltd. This add-on has 359,917 weekly active users and an average user rating of 3.80. The latest version, 4.39.0, was updated 5 days ago.

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By: MEGA Ltd

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Users: 359,917 ▲ 27.98K

Rating: 3.80 (47)

Version: 4.39.0 (Last updated: 2023-06-01)

Creation date: 2022-02-10

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
https://mega.co.nz/
https://mega.nz/
https://mega.io/
http://mega.co.nz/
http://mega.nz/
http://mega.io/
unlimitedStorage
clipboardWrite

Size: 8.53M

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Other platforms

MEGA (v4.39.0)

7,126 1,937,747

Not available on Firefox

ChromeStats Rank

# 134 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#9 in cloud keyword

#24 in purchase keyword ▲ 7

#24 in secure keyword

#66 in stayfree keyword ▼ 3

#75 in chat keyword ▼ 1

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Summary

Secure Cloud Storage and Communication. Privacy by design.

MEGA is a secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space. Unlike other cloud storage providers, your data is encrypted and decrypted by your client devices only and never by us.

This extension allows you to install MEGA into your browser to reduce loading times, improve download performance and strengthen security. Any MEGA URL will be captured by this extension and stay local (no JavaScript will be loaded from our servers).

MEGA’s source code files (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) are loaded from the extension itself and do not require additional integrity verification. This saves time by not downloading these files from MEGA’s servers and verifying them each time you visit the MEGA website. The executable client code runs directly on users' local machines, rather than being loaded from MEGA over TLS/SSL. Browser extension updates are cryptographically protected. For more information see section 2.2 of our whitepaper

https://mega.io/SecurityWhitepaper.pdf.


Security reviewers can find our source code at

https://mega.io/sourcecode.


Users wanting additional storage and bandwidth above the free tier can purchase plans at

https://mega.nz/pro.

 This purchase page is available within the extension as well.

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Pros

Provides secure access to Mega cloud storage
Enables copy-and-paste through context menu
Offers cryptographically protected security
Native Linux clients available
Provides chat functionality

Cons

Occasional loading loops
Issue recognizing desktop app
Only works with VPN in some regions

Most mentioned

Secure access to Mega
Native Linux clients
Chat functionality
Loading loops
Desktop app recognition issue
VPN required in some regions

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Safety

Risk impact

MEGA requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install MEGA if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

MEGA is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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